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100 ВЕЛИКИХ СУПРУЖЕСКИХ ПАР

Bibliographic Description

100 великих супружеских пар / Мусский, И.А. – М. : Вече, 2005. – (100 великих). – ISBN 5-9533-0515-Х.

Author
Мусский, И.А.
Publisher
Вече
Year of publication
2005
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy noted in "Anna Karenina." This book presents essays on a hundred great married couples of different times and peoples. That is two hundred great lives! For some, love and married life inspired the creation of masterpieces of literature, music and cinema, the making of scientific discoveries, decisions that influenced the development of states. For some, marriage ultimately brought disappointment and misfortune. But all of them left their mark on the history of humanity and, through their lives, proved once again that love turns the world upside down and works miracles, and that strong families remain one of the foundations of any society. Before readers will pass the lives of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina, Suleiman I and Roxelana, Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, Alexander Pushkin and Natalya Goncharova, Pierre Curie and Marie Skłodowska, Nicholas Roerich and Elena Shaposhnikova, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier... Different countries and eras, dissimilar fates, differing assessments by contemporaries and descendants...

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